Surya Pratap wrote:
Rony wrote:
Windows is quite a PITA to maintain especially with viruses and its affinity for corrupting the file system,
Windows has as many viruses because of its popularity, security, no matter the OS is actually up to the user, think of, what a nasty program can accomplish if it is given root access in linux.
Linux, Unix and Mac OS-X confirm to POSIX standards and that is what makes them safer in multi-user environments. Windows does not. It only complies, which is much different from confirming. You could look up POSIX in google and you will find some interesting information.
The way I see it, Windows OS is not that bad, the bad part is the restrictions that a user/developer is forced go through because of the licensing issues.
Licensing is just one part of the problem.